MORE COMMON CORE LOOT FOR PEARSON

Valerie Strauss reports in the Washington Post that British publishing/testing giant Pearson, has won another multi-million-dollar deal with one of the two multi-state consortia that are designing new Core-aligned states with federal funds.

The Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers, or PARCC, is hiring Pearson, according to a news release, to develop test items and forms, deliver paper and online versions of tests, consult with states to come up with cut scores that determine what is a good score and what isn’t, report results to various constituencies, and analyze the scores.

 According to EdWeek, James Mason, who helped negotiate the contract, wouldn't put a price tag on the deal, but called it, "one of "unprecedented scale."